Opinion Digests

Where two employees left the plaintiff company and joined the defendant company, the defendant was properly awarded summary judgment on the plaintiff’s claims that one of the employees breached an employee confidentiality and nonsolicitation agreement. The court also properly awarded ...

Where (1) the Workers’ Compensation Trust Fund (WCTF) was ordered to pay an employee ongoing §34A and cost of living benefits and (2) the reinsurer was ordered to reimburse the WCTF, the decision must be reversed, except for an award ...

Where a grand jury returned an 18-count indictment against the defendants for engaging in a scheme related to the sale of a medical device in which they allegedly intended to deceive not only the United States Food and Drug Administration ...

Where the Housing Appeals Committee ordered the Hanover zoning board to issue a comprehensive permit for a development including affordable housing units, that order must be reversed because the HAC erred in finding the developer’s application to be complete prior ...

Where, in evaluating the accuracy of a confidential informant’s “track record,” a motion judge considered suppressed evidence from an unrelated case in which a different judge found that the same CI’s veracity was not adequately established, the motion judge was ...

Where a judge allowed the defendant’s motion for a new trial, she abused her discretion by failing to conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine whether the record could be reconstructed. Accordingly, the order is vacated and the matter remanded for ...

Where a defendant moved for reconsideration of a restitution order because the commonwealth did not prove by a preponderance of the evidence that a causal connection existed between the defendant’s actions and the victim’s injuries, that argument is without merit, ...

Where (1) a plaintiff brought suit in 2005 for breach of an ownership transfer agreement and (2) the judge found that the agreement had been breached, but declined to allow her to recover assets that were abandoned by the bankruptcy ...

Where an insurance company that paid the policy limits to a dancer at the policyholder’s establishment has moved for summary judgment on the dancer’s counterclaims, summary judgment is inappropriate as to three of the dancer’s G.L.c. 176D counterclaims, as a ...

Where a defendant employer charged with violating the Labor Management Relations Act has served a subpoena on the plaintiff employee’s union, the plaintiff has not shown that the subpoena should be quashed under a ‘labor relations’ privilege. “After the case ...